Health Care Innovation Awards Round One Project Profiles

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1 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One Project Profiles The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation announced the first batch of awardees for the Health Care Innovation Awards (Round One) on May 8, 2012 and the second (final) batch on June 15, This list includes both the first and second batch of awardees. Beginning July 1, 2012, these awardee organizations have implemented projects in communities across the nation that aim to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly those with the highest health care needs. These projects are funded for three years. Continued funding is contingent on satisfactory performance compared with operational performance measures and a decision that continued funding is in the best interest of the federal government. These profiles have been revised to reflect any updates to the projects as of December, Note: Descriptions and project data (e.g. gross savings estimates, population served, etc.) are three- year estimates provided by each organization and are based on budget submissions required by the Health Care Innovation Awards Round One application process and are not CMS projections. While all projects are expected to produce cost savings beyond the three-year grant award, some may not achieve net cost savings until after the initial three-year period due to start-up-costs, change in care patterns and intervention effects on health status. More information on Round One of the Health Care Innovation Awards can be found at Last updated: December 2013

2 ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM Project Title: Maximum Health at Minimal Cost: A Community- Based Medical Home Model for the Non-Elderly Disabled Geographic Reach: Minnesota Funding Amount: $1,767,667 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $2 million Summary: Allina Health System received an award to test a community-based medical home model to serve 300 adults with disabilities and complex health conditions, particularly complex neurological conditions, in the Minneapolis - St. Paul metropolitan area. The intervention will coordinate and improve access to primary and specialty care, increase adherence to care, and empower participants to better manage their own health. Over 25 Independent Living Skills Specialists, Peer Leaders, and other health professionals will be trained with enhanced skills to fulfill the medical home mission. This community-based and patient-centered approach is expected to reduce avoidable hospitalizations, lower cost, and improve the quality of care for this expensive and underserved group of people with an estimated savings of over $2 million over the three-year award. ALTARUM INSTITUTE Project Title: Comprehensive community-based approach to reducing inappropriate imaging Geographic Reach: Michigan Funding Amount: $8,366,178 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $33,237,555 Summary: Altarum Institute, in partnership with United Physicians (IPA) and Detroit Medical Center Physician Hospital Organization, received an award to reduce unnecessary imaging studies for beneficiaries in Southeastern Michigan. This multifaceted intervention will establish a data-exchange system between primary care and imaging facilities to increase evidence-based decision-making among physicians ordering MRIs and CTs in the lumbar-spine, cervical-spine, lower extremities, shoulder, head, chest, and abdomen. The goal is to reduce CT volume by 17.4 percent and MRI volume by 13.4 percent over three years, resulting in a 17 percent reduction in imaging costs without any loss in diagnostic accuracy or restrictions on the ordering of tests. Over a three-year period, Altarum Institute will train a network of area care providers in the use of the program s systems and technology, while creating an estimated 23 jobs for practice consultants, health information analysts, lean practice redesign specialists, and health education specialists. ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Project Title: Patient Navigation Center Geographic Reach: California 2

3 Funding Amount: $2,684,545 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $3,373,602 Summary: Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), in partnership with the Career Ladders Project and local community colleges, received an award to train Asian and Hispanic youth as nonclinical health workers for a Patient Navigation Center (PNC). Serving low-income Asian and Hispanic families in Santa Clara County, PNC will provide enabling services, including translation, appointment scheduling, referrals, and application help for social services, as well as after-hours and self-care assistance. Patient navigation will lead to improved access to care, better disease screening, decreased diagnosis time, better medication adherence, a reduction in emergency room visits, and reduced anxiety for patients. Over a three-year period, Asian Americans for Community Involvement will re-train its current staff of nurses, supervisors, and on-call clinicians and create an estimated 29 jobs. The new workers will include patient navigators, nurse and clinician advisors, and a workforce manager. ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION Project Title: Expand Atlantic General Hospital s infrastructure to create a patient-centered medical home Geographic Reach: Delaware, Maryland Funding Amount: $1,097,512 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $3,522,000 Summary: Atlantic General Hospital Corporation, which serves largely rural Worcester County, Maryland, is working to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries through a patient centered medical home (PCMH) care model. Through a partnership with the Worcester County Health Department (WCHD), Atlantic General has implemented PCMH standards and principles in all seven of its primary care practices, increasing access for patients needing non-emergency episodic care to reduce hospital admission rates and emergency department visits for these Medicare beneficiaries. The original intent of the grant-funded project was to focus on patients with either a primary or admitting diagnosis of congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or diabetes, who currently rely on high-cost ER visits and acute care admissions. However, the PCMH team has been able to expand the program to offer services to patients with additional diagnoses. BEN ARCHER HEALTH CENTER Project Title: A home visitation program for rural populations in Northern Dona Ana County, New Mexico Geographic Reach: New Mexico Funding Amount: $1,270,845 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $6,352,888 3

5 Summary: The Bronx Regional Health Information Organization (Bronx RHIO), in partnership with its member organizations and Bronx Community College, Weill Cornell Medical College, Optum Data Management, and the Emergency Health Information Technology group at Montefiore Medical Center, received an award to create the Bronx Regional Informatics Center, which will develop data registries and predictive systems that will proactively encourage early care interventions and enable providers to better manage care for high-risk, high-cost patients. The project will improve patient outcomes, improve overall health for Bronx residents, reduce the cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid by over $15 million, and train health care workers to coordinate these quality improvement efforts. Over a three-year period, The Bronx RHIO will create an estimated 30 jobs, including positions for intervention team members and community health advocates. CALIFORNIA LONG-TERM CARE EDUCATION CENTER Project Title: Care team integration of the home-based workforce Geographic Reach: California Funding Amount: $11,831,445 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $24,957,836 Summary: The California Long-Term Care Education Center, in partnership with SEIU United Long Term Care Workers, Shirley Ware Education Center, SEIU United Healthcare Workers, L.A. Care Health Plan, Contra Costa Health Plan in conjunction with Contra Costa Employment and Human Services Department, SynerMed, St. John s Well Child and Family Center, Care 1st Health Plan, and the University of California, San Francisco Center for Health Professions, is piloting an intervention project to integrate In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers into the health care system. The project, titled Care Team Integration of the Home-Based Workforce, serves beneficiaries of California s Medicaid personal care services program (known as IHSS). All beneficiaries are disabled and 85 percent are Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. Our project recognizes the unique position of personal home care aides (PHCAs) with respect to some of the sickest and most costly Medicare and Medicaid enrollees. In most cases, PHCAs are an untapped resource into the health care system. The program focuses on developing the IHSS workforce by training IHSS providers (or PHCAs) in core competencies that will enable them to serve as agents of change and assume new roles with respect to caring for their IHSS consumer. These core competencies include being health monitors, coaches, communicators, navigators, and care aides. The goal is to reduce ER visits by 23 percent and hospital admissions from the ER by 23 percent over three years. In addition, the project hopes to see a 10 percent reduction in the average length of stay in nursing homes over the same time period. Over a three-year period, the program will train an estimated 6,000 IHSS providers. 5

6 CAREFIRST Project Title: Medicare and CareFirst s total care and cost improvement program in Maryland Geographic Reach: Maryland Funding Amount: $24,000,000 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $29,213,838 Summary: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield received an award to expand its Total Care and Cost Improvement Program (TCCI), which includes its Patient-Centered Medical Home to approximately 25,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Maryland. This approach will move the region toward a new health care financing model that is more accountable for care outcomes and less driven by the volumeinducing aspects of fee-for-service payment. The TCCI Program will enhance support for primary care, empowering primary care providers to coordinate care for Medicare beneficiaries with multiple morbidities and patients at high risk for chronic illnesses. TCCI will result in less fragmented health care, reducing avoidable hospitalizations, emergency room visits, medication interactions, and other problems caused by gaps in care and ensuring that patients receive the appropriate care for their conditions. The TCCI Program will create an estimated 36 jobs. The new workforce will include local care coordinators, and program consultants. CARILION NEW RIVER VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER Project Title: Improving health for at-risk rural patients (IHARP) in 23 southwest Virginia counties through a collaborative pharmacist practice model Geographic Reach: Virginia, West Virginia Funding Amount: $4,162,618 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $4,308,295 Summary: Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Aetna Healthcare and select community pharmacies, received an award to improve medication therapy management for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and other patients in 23 underserved, rural counties in southwest Virginia. Their care delivery model, involving six rural and one urban hospitals and 20 primary care practices, trains pharmacists in transformative care and chronic disease management protocols. Through care coordination and shared access to electronic medical records, the project enables pharmacists to participate in improving medication adherence and management, resulting in better health, reduced hospitalizations and emergency room visits, and fewer adverse drug events for patients with multiple chronic diseases. 6

7 CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES Project Title: A recovery-oriented approach to integrated behavioral and physical health care for a high-risk population Geographic Reach: Texas Funding Amount: $4,557,969 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $5 million Summary: The Center for Health Care Services in San Antonio, Texas, received an award to integrate behavioral, mental, and primary health care for a group of approximately 260 homeless adults in San Antonio with severe mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorders, at risk for chronic physical diseases. Their intervention will integrate health care into existing behavioral health clinics, using a multi-disciplinary care team to coordinate behavioral, primary, and tertiary health care for these people most of them Medicaid beneficiaries or eligible for Medicaid and is expected to improve their capacity to self-manage, reducing emergency room and hospital admissions, and lowering cost, while improving health and quality of life and with estimated savings of $5 million over three years. Over the three-year period, the Center for Health Care Services program will hire and train an estimated 22 health care workers, to include two health navigators, ten community guest specialists, and six certified peers support specialists. The care team will provide peer support to generate readiness for change, build motivation, and sustain compliance. CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Project Title: CCHP Advanced Wrap Network Geographic Reach: Wisconsin Funding Amount: $2,796,255 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $2,851,266 Summary: Children s Hospital and Health System received an award to create Care Links, which will support members of Children s Community Health Plan (CCHP), the system s Medicaid HMO in Southeast Wisconsin, as they navigate the health care system. Care Links will allow community health navigators to educate and empower health plan members to navigate the health care system, connect with a primary care doctor and receive preventive care and appropriate screenings. Community health navigators will offer services to individuals and families who have had two ER visits within six months. A nurse navigator will work with health plan members diagnosed with asthma who have had one ER or one inpatient stay related to asthma. Both the community navigators and the nurse navigator will reinforce the availability of urgent care and CCHP s 24/7 nurse advice line. The goal of Care Links is to reduce avoidable ER visits, improve health outcomes (specific HEDIS measures) and reduce cost. Over the three year period, Children s Hospital and Health System will create nine jobs, including a program manager, community health navigators and nurse navigators. 7

8 CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM Project Title: Bridging the Divide Geographic Reach: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Funding Amount: $9,999,999 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $376,327 Summary: Christiana Care Health System, serving the state of Delaware, received an award to create and test a system that uses a care management hub and combines information technology and carefully coordinated care management to improve care for post-myocardial infarction and revascularization patients, the majority of them Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries. Christiana Care will integrate statewide health information exchange data with cardiac care registries from the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, enabling more effective care/case management through near real time visibility of patient care events, lab results, and testing. This will decrease emergency room visits and avoidable readmissions to hospitals and improve interventions and care transitions. The investments made by this grant are expected to generate cost savings beyond the three year grant period. Over a three-year period, Christiana Care Health System will create an estimated 16 health care jobs, including positions for nurse care managers, pharmacists, and social workers. CHRISTUS ST. MICHAEL HEALTH SYSTEM Project Title: "Reducing readmissions from nursing home facilities with the Integrated Nurse Training and Mobile Device Harm Reduction Program" Geographic Reach: Arkansas, Texas Funding Amount: $1,600,322 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $3,536,440 Summary: CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System, in partnership with the Community Long-Term Care Facility Partnership Group and University of the Incarnate Word, received an award to implement the Integrated Nurse Training and Mobile Device Harm Reduction Program (INTM). The INTM will train nurses to recognize early warning signs of congestive heart failure (CHF) and sepsis in Medicare beneficiaries in nursing home facilities and patients in hospitals who are vulnerable to certain preventable conditions. The project team developed an educational program that includes customized, clinical decision support mobile device training, and interactive didactic sessions. The training, in combination with computerized clinical decision support systems that guide nurses through evidencebased protocols once symptoms are detected and mobile devices loaded with clinical support system software, is anticipated to result in a 20% reduction in readmissions from long term care facilities for CHF and sepsis and fewer failure-to-rescue situations for those patients who are admitted to the hospital. 8

9 COOPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Project Title: N/A Geographic Reach: New Jersey Funding Amount: $2,788,457 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $6.2 million Summary: Cooper University Hospital in conjunction with the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, serving Camden, New Jersey, received an award to better serve approximately 600 Camden residents with complex medical needs who have relied on emergency rooms and hospital admissions for care. The intervention will use nurse led interdisciplinary outreach teams to work with enrolled participants to reduce hospital readmissions and improve their access to primary health care. This approach is expected to result in better health care outcomes and lower cost with estimated savings of over $6 million. Over the three-year period, Cooper University Hospital s program will train an estimated 22 health care workers, while creating an estimated 16 new jobs. These workers will include non-clinical staff, like AmeriCorps volunteers and community health workers, who will serve as part of the multidisciplinary teams to support care coordination activities. DELTA DENTAL PLAN OF SOUTH DAKOTA Project Title: Improving the care and oral health of American Indian mothers and young children and American Indian people with diabetes on South Dakota reservations Geographic Reach: North Dakota, South Dakota Funding Amount: $3,364,528 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $6.2 million Summary: Delta Dental of South Dakota, which covers over thirty-thousand isolated, low-income, and underserved Medicaid beneficiaries and other American Indians on reservations throughout South Dakota, received an award to improve oral health and health care for American Indian mothers, their young children, and American Indian people with diabetes. Providing preventive care will help avoid and arrest oral and dental diseases, repair damage, prevent recurrence, and ultimately, reduce the need for surgical care. The project will also work with diabetic program coordinators to identify and treat people with diabetes. By coordinating community-based oral care with other social and care provider services, the model is expected to reduce the high incidence of oral health problems in the area, improve patient access, monitoring, and overall health, and lower cost through prevention with estimated savings of over $6 million. Over the three-year period, the Delta Dental of South Dakota Circle of Smiles program will train an estimated 24 health care workers and create an estimated 24 new jobs. These workers will be comprised of registered dental hygienists and community health representatives who will treat and educate patients and coordinate their dental care. 9

10 DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY Project Title: Integrated model of individualized ambulatory care for low income children and adults Geographic Reach: Colorado Funding Amount: $19,789,999 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $12,792,256 Summary: The goal of the project is for Denver Health to transform its primary care delivery system to provide individualized care to more effectively meet its patients' medical, behavioral and social needs. This model provides team-based care, coordinates care across health settings and offers self-care support between visits enabled by health information technology (HIT) and team-based patient navigators who reach out to patients in a variety of ways. It also integrates physical and behavioral health services in collaboration with the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) in existing primary care settings and in newly created high-risk clinics for the most complex patients. Over the three-year grant period, Denver Health s 21st Century Care program will ensure increased access to care by 15,000 people, improve overall population health for Denver Health patients by 5 percent, improve patient satisfaction with care delivered between visits by 5 percent without decreasing satisfaction with visitbased care, and decrease total cost of care by 2.5 percent relative to trend. DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES HEALTH SERVICES Project Title: Expanding and testing a Nurse Practitioner-led health home model for individuals with developmental disabilities Geographic Reach: Arkansas, New Jersey, New York Funding Amount: $3,701,528 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $5,374,080 Summary: Developmental Disabilities Health Services received an award to test a developmental disabilities health home model using care management/primary care teams of nurse practitioners and MDs to improve the health and care of persons with developmental disabilities in important clinical areas. This health home model serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who receive Medicaid and/or Medicare benefits in New Jersey, the Bronx, and Little Rock, Arkansas, and are eligible for services in each state's Home- and Community-Based Services waiver program, as well as individuals who are commercially insured and uninsured. All of the patients are considered high-risk and many have co-morbidities. By integrating care using nurse practitioners as care coordinators and health care providers, the health homes are improving primary care, mental health care, basic neurological care, and seizure management for these beneficiaries, resulting in reduced emergency room visits and lower out-of-home placement and institutionalization. Over a three-year period, Developmental Disabilities Health Services will retrain and deploy 20 individuals to provide and coordinate primary care and mental health services in health homes for persons with developmental disabilities. 10

11 DUKE UNIVERSITY Project Title: From clinic to community: achieving health equity in the southern United States Geographic Reach: Mississippi, North Carolina, West Virginia Funding Amount: $9,773,499 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $20.8 million Summary: Led by Duke University, the Southeastern Diabetes Initiative (SEDI) is a project that supports integrated teams implementing a model for improving health outcomes and quality of life for those suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the Southeastern United States. The majority of funds are being used to (1) harvest data from all electronic sources in each county to create a comprehensive, integrated data warehouse to accurately reflect clinical and social data that can be represented at the individual, neighborhood, and community level, and (2) use that data to implement spatially-enabled informatics systems that risk stratify patients and neighborhoods, allowing implementation of an intense clinical intervention from a multi-disciplinary team that provides care to the highest risk patients as well as additional individual and neighborhood interventions to moderate risk patients and neighborhoods - providing real-time monitoring of individuals and populations with T2DM and serving as the basis for decision support and evaluation of interventions. A spatially-enabled analytical platform has been created via an electronic health record integrated data warehouse that covers the vast majority of Durham and Cabarrus County, North Carolina residents (representing urban and rural African Americans and Hispanics in North Carolina), Mingo County, West Virginia, and Quitman County, Mississippi (rural African Americans in the Mississippi Delta). Our collaborative team includes the Mississippi Institute for Public Health; Center for Rural Health at Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University; the Mingo County, West Virginia Diabetes Coalition and Williamson Health and Wellness Federally Qualified Health Center in Williamson, West Virginia; the Appalachian Regional Commission; the Durham County Department of Health in Durham, North Carolina; Duke University Medical Center; the Cabarrus Health Alliance in Kannapolis, North Carolina and Cabarrus Community Health Centers in Concord, North Carolina; and the National Center for Geospatial Medicine at the University of Michigan. EAU CLAIRE COOPERATIVE HEALTH CENTERS, INC. Project Title: Healthy Columbia: recruiting, training, organizing, deploying, and supporting community health teams in low income area of Columbia, South Carolina Geographic Reach: South Carolina Funding Amount: $2,330,000 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $14,817,600 Summary: Eau Claire Cooperative Health Centers, Inc., in partnership with the Select Health and BlueChoice Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, is receiving an award for a project aimed at improving health outcomes for populations in underserved, low-income areas of Columbia, South Carolina. Eau Claire will use health care teams of nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and community 11

12 health workers affiliated with a Federally Qualified Health Center to provide patient education, home visits, and care coordination, leading to reduced use of high cost health care services, including emergency room visits and hospitalizations, improved self-management for patients with chronic conditions, a decrease in low birth weight infant care, and improved health outcomes in general. Payers have agreed to reimburse a portion of cost savings. Over a three-year period, Eau Claire Cooperative Health Centers will create an estimated 22 health care-related jobs, including positions for peer health workers, registered nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and a project director. EMORY UNIVERSITY (CENTER FOR CRITICAL CARE) Project Title: Rapid Development and Deployment of Non-Physician Providers in Critical Care Geographic Reach: Georgia Funding Amount: $10,748,332 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $18.4 million Summary: Emory University, in partnership with Philips Company and several regional medical centers including Saint Joseph s Health System, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, East Georgia Regional Medical Center and Southern Regional Medical Center, received an award to hire more than 40 critical care professionals, including 20 nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) who are training at Emory s University Hospitals, Saint Joseph s Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital and deployed to undeserved and rural hospitals in Georgia. Additional training in the use of tele-icu services for supervision of those NP and PA providers as well as for support of nurses and allied health personnel will reach an additional 400 clinical, technical and administrative support professionals who form the local hospital critical care teams. This innovative strategy will serve over ten thousand Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and aim to mitigate problems associated with the lack of critical care doctors in the region, improve access to quality health care, and lower costs associated with inefficient care and a lack of transport services which could save approximately $18.4 million over 3 years. FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SAN FRANCISCO Project Title: Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis (PREP) Geographic Reach: California Funding Amount: $4,703,817 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $4,235,801 Summary: Family Service Agency of San Francisco expanded its Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis (PREP) to two low-income, largely Latino counties in Central and Northern California, San Joaquin (Stockton) and Monterey (Salinas). Schizophrenia is estimated to account for 2.5 to 3 percent of United States health care expenditures. Without an intervention like PREP, as many as 90 percent of the patients served would be Supplemental Security Income/Medicare recipients (up from 30 percent now) 12

13 by the time they reached their 30s. Through evidence-based treatments, medication management, and care management, PREP aims to prevent the onset of full psychosis, and in cases in which full psychosis has already occurred, seeks to fully remit the disease and rehabilitate the cognitive functions it has damaged. Family Service Agency of San Francisco has trained over 20 health care providers to use their PREP intervention, while creating 19 jobs for social workers, Nurse Practitioners, vocational counselors, and peer and family aides. FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH Project Title: Using care managers and technology to improve the care of patients with schizophrenia Geographic Reach: Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon Funding Amount: $9,380,855 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $10,080,000 Summary: The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research received an award to develop a workforce that is capable of delivering effective treatments, using newly available technologies, to at-risk, high-cost patients with schizophrenia. The intervention will test the use of care managers, physicians, and nurse practitioners trained to use new technology as part of the treatment regime for patients recently discharged from the hospital at community treatment centers in eight states. These trained providers will educate patients and their caregivers about pharmacologic management, cognitive behavior therapy, and web-based/home-based monitoring tools for their conditions. This intervention is expected to improve patients quality of life and lower cost by reducing hospitalizations. Over a three-year period, the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research will retrain nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physicians, and case managers to use newly available mental health protocols and health technology resources. FINGER LAKES HEALTH SYSTEM AGENCY Project Title: Transforming primary care delivery: a community partnership Geographic Reach: New York Funding Amount: $26,583,892 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $48,021,083 Summary: Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency (FLHSA) received an award to enhance primary care in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. Focusing on primary care practices with large panels of adult Medicare and Medicaid patients, selected participants will receive a fully-funded care manager, technical and financial assistance towards patient-centered medical home certification, and inclusion in an innovative payment model developed in collaboration with local payers. The primary goal of these supports is to reduce hospital admissions, hospital readmissions, and emergency department usage. Over a three year period, the FLHSA will select sixty-five primary care practices, fund and train over 13

14 seventy-five healthcare professionals, and establish reimbursement methods sustain these activities past the grant timeframe. FINITY COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Project Title: EveryBODY Get Healthy Geographic Reach: Pennsylvania Funding Amount: $4,967,962 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $8.7 million Summary: The Finity Communications, Inc. model is designed to improve health care for over 120,000 high-need Medicaid beneficiaries in the Greater Philadelphia area. The innovation uses health analytics technology to track risk criteria and update integrated health profiles, and to deploy targeted alerts, outreach, wellness, and support services in a closed-loop environment that evolves with successful behavioral change. The innovation includes providing Peer Mentors to support ongoing engagement and healthy behavioral change. This integrated approach to health care is expected to reduce the gaps in care and lead to improved health care, better health, and reduced costs for individuals with diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, and high-risk pregnancy. FIRSTVITALS HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC. Project Title: Improving the health and care of low-income diabetics at reduced costs Geographic Reach: Hawaii Funding Amount: $3,999,713 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $4,829,955 Summary: FirstVitals Health and Wellness Inc., in partnership with AlohaCare, received an award to implement and test a care coordination and health information technology plan that will better regulate glucose levels for Medicaid-eligible patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes who have the complication of peripheral neuropathy. FirstVitals will create a secured database that will receive data feeds from a combination of wireless glucose meters and tablets, which are expected to improve health education and social networking around diabetes management issues. The "real time" information will be available to integrated care coordinators, patients, physicians and other approved caregivers, informing decisions about care and enabling caregivers to track and monitor glucose levels, improve medication adherence, and increase patient safety and the effectiveness of treatment. The project will reduce foot ulcers and amputations and attendant complications, and reduce emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Over a three-year period, FirstVitals program will involve and educate dozens of healthcare workers, train an estimated 11 to 12 healthcare coordinators and will create an estimated 7 to 9 jobs. The new workforce will include integrated care coordinators both clinical and non-clinical, a clinical diabetes educator, and a medical director. 14

15 FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES Project Title: Transitions clinic network: linking high-risk Medicaid patients from prison to community primary care Geographic Reach: Alabama, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Puerto Rico Funding Amount: $6,852,153 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $8,115,855 Summary: City College of San Francisco (CCSF), University of California at San Francisco, and Yale University are collaborating to address the health care needs of high risk/high cost Medicaid and Medicaid-eligible individuals with chronic conditions released from prison. Targeting eleven community health centers in seven states and Puerto Rico, the program will work with the Department of Corrections to identify patients with chronic medical conditions prior to release and will use community health workers trained by City College of San Francisco to help these individuals navigate the healthcare system, find primary care and other medical and social services, and coach them in chronic disease management. The outcomes will include reduced reliance on emergency room care, fewer hospital admissions, and lower cost, with improved patient health and better access to appropriate care. Over a three-year period, this innovation will create an estimated 22 jobs and train an estimated 49 workers. The new workforce will include 12 community health workers, 11 part-time panel managers, two parttime project coordinators, one research analyst and two part-time project staff. FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK Project Title: "Parachute NYC: an alternative approach to mental health treatment and crisis services" Geographic Reach: New York Funding Amount: $17,608,085 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $51,696,138 Summary: The Fund for Public Health in New York, Inc., in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene s Division of Mental Hygiene, received an award to implement Parachute NYC, a citywide approach to provide a soft-landing for individuals experiencing psychiatric crisis. This new program offers community centered options that focus on recovery, hope and a healthy future. Parachute NYC uses mobile treatment teams, crisis respite centers, and a peer operated Support Line to provide early engagement (including a dedicated program for first episode psychosis), continuity of care and combined peer and non-peer community service, thus shifting the focus of care from crisis intervention to long-term, community-integrated treatment with access to primary care, improving crisis management and reducing emergency room visits and hospital admissions. Parachute NYC serves communities in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens. 15

16 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Project Title: Using Telemedicine in peritoneal dialysis to improve patient adherence and outcomes while reducing overall costs Geographic Reach: District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia Funding Amount: $1,939,127 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $1.7 million Summary: George Washington University received an award to improve care for 300 patients on peritoneal dialysis in Washington, D.C., and eventually in Virginia and Maryland. The intervention will use telemedicine to offer real-time, continuous, and interactive health monitoring to improve patient safety and treatment. The model will train a dialysis nurse workforce in prevention, care coordination, team-based care, telemedicine, and the use of remote patient data to guide treatment for co-morbid, complex patients. This approach is expected to improve patient access to care, adherence to treatment, self-management, and health outcomes, while reducing cost of care for peritoneal dialysis patients with complex health care needs by reducing overall hospitalization days with estimated savings of approximately $1.7 million. Over the three-year period, George Washington University s program will train an estimated three health care workers and create an estimated three new jobs. These workers will provide clinical support and health monitoring via the web to home dialysis patients. HEALTHLINKNOW, INC. Project Title: "Patient-centered medical home for mental health services in Wyoming and Montana" Geographic Reach: California, Montana, Washington, Wyoming Funding Amount: $7,718,636 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $8,100,000 Summary: HealthLinkNow Inc, partnering with a number of local provider groups and health networks in Montana and Wyoming, is received an award to provide a Patient Centered Medical Home Program (PCMH) with mental health and substance abuse services in areas where geography and lack of psychiatrists and psychologists complicate access. This model will offer videoconferencing between local patients and HealthLinkNow psychiatrists; instant messaging, , and telephone calls via HealthLinkNow between providers and patients; and a HealthLinkNow IT platform that allows billing, e- prescribing, and practice management. The program will improve access to psychiatric consultations, therapy, and long-term mental health case management. Lower costs through reduced hospital admissions and emergency room visits are anticipated. Over a three-year period, HealthLinkNow will hire 24 health care providers, including both psychiatrists and therapists. 16

17 HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION Project Title: New England asthma innovations collaborative Geographic Reach: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont Funding Amount: $4,040,657 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $4.1 million Summary: The "New England Asthma Innovation Collaborative (NEAIC) is a multi-state, multi-sector partnership convened by the Asthma Regional Council of New England (ARC), a program of Health Resources in Action (HRiA), that includes health care providers, payers, and policy makers aimed at creating an innovative Asthma Marketplace in New England that will increase the supply and demand for high-quality, cost-effective health care services delivered to Medicaid children with severe asthma. Our goal is to create a sustainable infrastructure that robustly delivers evidence-based cost-effective asthma care to New England children with severe disease, and creates viable Medicaid reimbursement mechanisms to support these programs over the long-term. The targeted population is high-cost Medicaid and CHIP pediatric patients (2 17 years), with a focus on those with uncontrolled symptoms that have a history of using expensive urgent care. NEAIC includes following components: 1. Workforce development: NEAIC will: a) sponsor Asthma Training to increase the number of well qualified cost-effective providers, including certified asthma educators (AE-Cs) and community health works (CHWs) with a specialty in asthma; and b) explore CHW asthma credentialing program that payers and provider practices across NE have requested and can benefit from. All of this will contribute to higher quality and culturally competent care, and we believe will help to support innovative Medicaid reimbursement as a result of demonstrated cost-effective outcomes. 2. Rapid service delivery expansion for over 1300 high-risk children with asthma in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Vermont. NEAIC employs the following components of care: 1) Asthma selfmanagement education 2) Home environmental assessment with the provision of minor-to-moderate environmental intervention supplies to reduce asthma triggers; and 3) Use of non-physician providers shown to be cost-effective deliverers of this level of care, particularly community health workers (CHWs) and certified asthma educators (AE-Cs). 3. Committed Medicaid payers in several New England states will work to sustain these programs by piloting reimbursement methodologies with the service providers, should the service model results demonstrate the goals of delivering better health, improving care and lowering costs.. 4. A Payer and Provider Learning Community across all six New England states to rapidly disseminate demonstrated improvements to the quality and cost of asthma care, share viable reimbursement systems developed, successfully incorporate CHWs into the asthma care team, and disseminate best practices. The Learning Community builds on ARC s existing networks and partnerships across the region, and is meant to increase awareness about these successful models with the goal of broader adoption across New England. NEAIC s components build in continuous quality improvement measures through rigorous data collection/analysis, strong partnerships, and commitments from interested payers and policy makers. 17

18 The establishment and promotion of CHWs as strong health care delivery partners addressing environmental conditions as part and parcel of the disease management program, with reimbursement by payers, make this an innovative model for broad dissemination and potential for replication across the nation. HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM Project Title: Mobility: the 6 th vital sign Geographic Reach: Michigan Funding Amount: $3,773,539 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $8,837,501 Summary: The Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) of Detroit, Michigan received an award for an innovative care model that encourages and supports patient mobility for patients at risk for hospital acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) during acute inpatient hospitalizations. The interventions include mobility and skin assessments, repositioning, range of motion exercises, assistance with ambulation and mobility/skin related patient and family education. The goal is to reduce HAPUs and associated costs, VAP, improve patient satisfaction and decrease length of stay. Over a three-year period, HFHS will create approximately 20 jobs for health care providers, including a project manager, rehab therapists, wound care certified nurses and patient mobility assistants. IHC HEALTH SERVICES (INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE) Project Title: Disruptive Intermountain Healthcare Geographic Reach: Idaho, Utah Funding Amount: $9,724,142 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $67,120,215 Summary: Intermountain Health Care, with 22 hospitals and 185 clinics in Utah and Southern Idaho, received an award to test a new care delivery and payment model using an information technologybased simulation of human physiology, clinical events, and health care systems to forecast which interventions will be most effective in reducing a person s risk, provide risk stratification metrics for individual patients, and project benefits for specific interventions. Their system will incorporate tracking of depression and its effects on risks and outcomes, and will be used to support population management interventions, and paired with a shared savings methodology, possibly with a mechanism for sharing downside risk through a pre-funded withhold concept. Over a three-year period, Intermountain will train and hire 12 workers for health information technology-related jobs, including research assistants, data analysts, data warehouse analysts, decision-support analysts, and positions as data architect, management engineer, and project coordinator. 18

19 IMAGING ADVANTAGE LLC Project Title: "The right exam, at the right time, read by the right radiologist" Geographic Reach: Illinois Funding Amount: $5,977,805 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $14,935,320 Summary: The goal of the Project is to further the goals of better care for individuals, better health for populations and reduced costs through improvements in care by reengineering the hospital-based radiology service delivery model at Vanguard Health Chicago ( VHC ), a four-hospital system in Chicago, Illinois, for which Imaging Advantage is the exclusive provider of radiology services system-wide. To achieve this goal, at VHC, Imaging Advantage will, among other steps: A. Develop and deploy a suite of proprietary front-end referring physician decision-support tools designed to reduce or eliminate duplicative and/or clinically unnecessary radiology exams and, in the process, reduce CMS costs and patients cumulative radiation dosage exposures; B. Implement a comprehensive total quality management ( TQM ) program, including Imaging Advantage s proprietary RealTime QA program, one of the only proactive quality assurance programs in the country. The RealTime QA program applies double-blind reads to high-difficulty radiology exams before the patient is treated, forcing better patient-care outcomes and reducing risks (and costs) of patient readmission; C. Eliminate wet or preliminary reads practices in VHC s emergency departments, including reads by non-radiologists, in all instances where preliminary reads are not clinically advisable; and D. Produce material improvements in VHC s final-report turnaround time, widely regarded as the significant limiting factor in hospital efficiency and cost control. INNOVATIVE ONCOLOGY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, INC. Project Title: Community oncology medical homes (COME HOME) Geographic Reach: Florida, Georgia, Maine, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas Funding Amount: $19,757,338 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $33,514,877 Summary: Innovative Oncology Business Solutions, Inc., representing 7 community oncology practices across the United States received an award to implement and test a medical home model of care delivery for newly diagnosed or relapsed Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and commercially insured patients with one of the following seven cancer types: breast, lung, colon, pancreas, thyroid, melanoma 19

20 and lymphoma. Cancer care is complicated, expensive, and often fragmented, leading to suboptimal outcomes, high cost, and patient dissatisfaction with care. Through comprehensive outpatient oncology care, including extended clinic hours, patient education, team care, medication management, and 24/7 practice access and inpatient care coordination, the medical home model will improve the timeliness and appropriateness of care, reduce unnecessary testing, and reduce avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Over a three-year period, Innovative Oncology Business Solutions will fill new health care jobs, including positions for training specialists, data analysts, patient care coordinators, registered nurses, and licensed practical nurses, as well as for a finance manager and a compliance manager. INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL SYSTEMS IMPROVEMENT Project Title: "Care management of mental and physical co-morbidities: a TripleAim bulls-eye" Geographic Reach: California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin Funding Amount: $17,999,635 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $27,693,046 Summary: The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) of Bloomington, Minnesota received an award to improve care delivery and outcomes for high-risk adult patients with Medicare or Medicaid coverage who have depression plus diabetes or cardiovascular disease. The program will use care managers and health care teams to assess condition severity, monitor care through a computerized registry, provide relapse and exacerbation prevention, intensify or change treatment as warranted, and transition beneficiaries to self-management. The partnering care systems include clinics in ICSI, Mayo Clinic Health System, Kaiser Permanente in Colorado and Southern California, Community Health Plan of Washington, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, Michigan Center for Clinical Systems Improvement, and Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association with support from HealthPartners Research Foundation and AIMS (Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions). Over a three-year period, ICSI and its partners will train the approximately 80+ care managers needed for this new model. JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF NURSING Project Title: CAPABLE for frail dually eligible older adults: achieving the triple aim by improving functional ability at home Geographic Reach: Maryland Funding Amount: $4,093,356 Estimated 3-Year Savings: $6,800,000 Summary: The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing received an award for a Medicare/Medicaid dual eligibles program (Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders CAPABLE ) that uses a 20

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